We’ve made several updates to our Guidelines according to comments under this post, thanks for your concern and support.
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The guidelines state under point ‘Other Important Rules #6: Do not post advertising information or links in your account name, description, images, etc. Affiliate links or other promotional materials included in the profile are not allowed.’ However, some models I create include parts that cannot be purchased from Bambu. Does this mean I am not allowed to provide links to such items? I think this will make it impossible to offer high-quality models. If I don’t know exactly what was used, I’m quickly out of such a project!
The key word there is in the profile.
My general reading of the rules is they don’t want people creating profiles that are more or less advertisements for other services/pages, or scams used to lure people into various things that are just money making scams for the operator of that profile.
So, I think like linking to related information, required hardware, stuff you would expect, would be accepted. Especially as long as you’re transparent about it. If you post up an object though with the description saying “This is just the demo, go here to get the real thing!” That would be heavily frowned upon.
It’s about the trust you share with the community. If you do stuff that breaks that trust, then you’re going to have a bad time. If you abuse the community to enrich yourself, you’re going to have a bad time.
I think Bambu realizes that Designers have a need to promote themselves and need to take care of their well being, but that can’t come at the cost of abusing the systems of the community and the trust of the community.
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Thanks, I think the same, and your words are a bit reassuring. I hope MW will implement it that way as well. However, the guidelines do sound somewhat vague and concerning. In the future, I have a few RC projects planned that require certain components you can’t buy from Bambu. It would be quite inconvenient for people to have to source everything themselves.
Hey @MakerWorld yet again you fail at acting on reports to your own guidelines you posted here.
Once again this user is breaking the same rules as before.
- When publishing a public model under the CC0 license, you are required to include your own image of the actual print to show its printability. Otherwise, it will be removed.
They nor the user who posted a profile (which is prob a 2nd account of theirs) are posting any proof.
https://www.printables.com/model/2770-human-skull-anatomically-correct
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Done! Both are reported 
May I suggest to:
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Mirror the list of prohibited items to the Report A Model drop down list? Right now it’s somewhat in sync but there’s gaps with the guidelines.
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Provide a “Before you report, please review our Community Guidelines” link at the Report A Model form.
Side note: I reckon the section on sensitive content is going to be a hotbed of cultural and social POV debates 
Uploading stray PP’s using the page image is so widespread and flying under the radar. Typically @Makerworld will ignore reports as they’ve got numbers on the board, its abusing the Print Profile guidelines and these people should be restricted from uploading in mass as they do. There are users that haven’t printed a flat washer in their life yet have hundreds of PP’s they dump daily.
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Entire account is full of CC0 rule 8 violations, reported them several times over yet ignored.
https://makerworld.com/en/@tuio
@makerworld why even make posts like this stating the rules when you selectively ignore enforcing them?
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@Makerworld makes up the rules as they go along.
Regarding "affiliate links.
2024-09-16 16:28:26
Hi Generic User,
Thank you for your time and patience.
Regarding the issues you mentioned, we would like to provide further clarification:
- Currently, MakerWorld temporarily allows users to include 3D printing-related affiliate links in their homepage or model descriptions.
When queried about “temporary”
MakerWorld
2024-09-16 19:48:13
Hi Generic User,
Thank you for your time and patience.
- Currently, we allow users to display links related to 3D printing services in their profiles, excluding malicious advertisements.
Reporting to Support is a joke, they’d taken down print profiles in the past only for them to be reuploaded a few hours later. They effectively shrug their shoulders.
- We have taken down some models from the user in question and contacted them about this matter. Since such cases are rare, we will require the user to make corrections within a specific timeframe. If they do not comply, we will proceed with removing the models. Please rest assured.
That’s why one uses Dark Reader. 
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